I honestly firmly believe no impact to end users will ever come of this other than better/increased competitivness in the market. I feel this will be postive for all players as sales continue strong for all the players with RIM maintaining the lead for some time to come, I also believe RIM will continue to be a larger and larger player in the hardware market, the 8700 is an awesome device and selling well i believe and better is only sure to come from RIM